United States Accounting Journals List

The Journal of Accounting and Economics encourages the application of economic theory to the explanation of accounting phenomena. It provides a forum for the publication of the highest quality manuscripts which employ economic analyses of accounting problems. A wide range of methodologies and topics are encouraged and covered: The role of accounting within the firm; The information content and role of accounting numbers in capital markets; The role of accounting in financial contracts and in monitoring agency relationships; The determination of accounting standards; Government regulation of corporate disclosure and/or the Accounting profession; The theory of the a...

The Journal of Accounting Research is a general-interest accounting journal.  It publishes original research in all areas of accounting and related fields that utilizes tools from basic disciplines such as economics, statistics, psychology, and sociology.  This research typically uses analytical, empirical archival, experimental, and field study methods and addresses economic questions, external and internal, in accounting, auditing, disclosure, financial reporting, taxation, and information as well as related fields such as corporate finance, investments, capital markets, law, contracting, and information economics. The journal publishes four regular issues and one conference issue each year. The conference issue c...

Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR), the premier research journal of the Canadian Academic Accounting Association, publishes leading-edge research that contributes to our collective understanding of accounting's role within organizations, markets, or society. Canadian based, and global in scope, CAR seeks to reflect the worldwide intellectual diversity in accounting research. Therefore, CAR welcomes interesting and intellectually rigorous work in all topics of accounting, using any appropriate method, and based on any discipline or research tradition that can contribute to accounting knowledge. Abstracting and Indexing Information ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest)